"I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to……" — S.J. Watson
"I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed."
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S.J. Watson
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20 Quotes by S.J. Watson
S.J. Watson has 20 quotes on this site.
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Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.
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With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the…
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I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and…
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…I feel like he’s taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any…
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We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of…
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I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
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I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find…
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I will never abandon you. I love you too much.
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I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that…
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
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It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only…
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Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move,…
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